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Coverage of street demonstrations is an exceptionally dangerous assignment, with journalists subject to assaults, obstruction, detention, raids, threats, censorship orders, and confiscation or destruction of equipment. This report is one in a series of three by Getty photographers who documented for CPJ their recent experiences covering protests and shared their photographs.

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A video report by a Euronews cameraman shows him being attacked by police during clashes in Kiev. (YouTube/Euronews)

New
York, December 2, 2013--At least 51 journalists were attacked while covering
protests in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and other cities over the weekend,
according to news reports and local journalists. The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the attacks and calls on Ukrainian authorities to ensure
that journalists are free to cover political developments.

More
than 12 years after several police officers strangled and beheaded muckraking
online reporter Georgy Gongadze in a forest
outside Kiev, justice in the case is still evasive and riddled with, well,
riddles.